With one round to go, GM Anton Korobov is back in the shared lead of the 2024 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament thanks to a win against GM Nils Grandelius, while leaders GM Arjun Erigaisi and GM Peter Svidler drew their game. GM Vincent Keymer would h...
GM Anton Korobov and GM Vincent Keymer are still on perfect scores after two rounds at the 2024 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament, and the two leaders will play each other on Monday. While Keymer defeated GM Nils Grandelius, Korobov was too strong for...
GM Hikaru Nakamura triumphantly returned to the Bullet Brawl arena on Saturday, scoring 74.5/76 en route to a resounding victory ahead of 150 titled players. Boasting a score of 288, Nakamura finished with a 14-point buffer separating him from GM ...
Round 11 of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament featured three decisive games out of a possible four. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the longest game of the round with Black against GM Vidit Gujrathi, again taking the sole lead. A half-point behin...
If you had doubts about how big an event Titled Tuesday has become, you can look at just how many players from the ongoing Candidates Tournament played the April 16 edition anyway (during a rest day in the Candidates). One of them, GM Hikaru Nakam...
GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana won their games in round 10 of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament to inch closer to the tournament lead. Co-leaders GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and GM Gukesh Dommaraju made a draw in their game and are now chased...
GM Magnus Carlsen scored a brilliant win, then pulled off a great escape, to beat GM Richard Rapport 1.5-0.5 and win the GRENKE Chess Classic for a third time. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat GM Vincent Keymer in blitz tiebreaks to take third place...
GM Bu Xiangzhi edged out GMs Yu Yangyi and Arjun Erigaisi on tiebreaks to win the fifth edition of the Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters on Thursday. All three finished on 4.5/7, with Bu having the best tiebreaks. It wasn't a good week for GM A...
GM Hikaru Nakamura recently extended his record on Chess.com to become the first player ever to break 3400 in blitz. His new high of 3405 is 28 points higher than number two on the list, GM Magnus Carlsen. The electrifying online blitz rivalry b...
The first event of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour, the 2024 Chessable Masters, is in the books, and plenty has happened in the tournament that lasted eight days. Some things aren't new, like the fact that GM Magnus Carlsen won again. But plenty i...
On day five, GM Magnus Carlsen claimed his spot in the Grand Final of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters. He defeated GM Denis Lazavik 2.5-1.5 in the Winners Final on Sunday. In the Division I Losers Quarterfinals, the favorit...
GM Magnus Carlsen will play GM Denis Lazavik in the Division I Winners Final of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters. On day four, they respectively defeated GMs Vladimir Fedoseev and Jose Martinez. In the Losers Bracket of Division I...
Day two of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters separated 56 advancing players into three divisions. In Division I Placement, the standout was 17-year-old GM Denis "the Menace" Lazavik who defeated GM Hikaru Nakamura 2-0 before also s...
13-year-old U.S. IM Andy Woodward has secured his final norm to become the world's 10th youngest grandmaster in history. At the same event, 12-year-old Turkish IM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus picked up his second norm and edged closer to breaking a rating ...
On his 25th birthday, GM Jose Martinez finished first in the all-GM Play-in of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters. The penultimate round against GM Hikaru Nakamura was absolutely critical, as the Peruvian GM managed to draw a losing e...
GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda took home Titled Tuesday on January 23 with 9.5 points. After Nakamura held tiebreaks over GM Wesley So and GM Vladimir Fedoseev, Duda became the first outright winner of 2024 (with seven people tied be...
A draw in the fifth round was enough for GM Anish Giri to increase his lead to a full point at the 2024 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. Second-placed GM Alireza Firouzja suffered an unexpected loss against Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun, who won a ...
The new Champions Chess Tour (CCT) season kicks off this month with the return of the Chessable Masters and a faster format designed to deliver even more exciting action. Chess.com’s premier year-long event is now four main online tourname...
GM Valentina Gunina is one of seven Russian women in history to attain the chess grandmaster title. She is a three-time European women's chess champion, a five-time Russian women's chess champion, has won three gold medals with the Russian nationa...
GM Daniil Dubov missed out on tying world number-one Magnus Carlsen for first place in the FIDE World Blitz Championship 2023 after both he and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi got zero points for the knight-moves-only draw they made in round 11. In a 59-min...
GM Magnus Carlsen scored six consecutive wins in rounds 14-19 setting the tone of the second and final day at the 2023 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship. It helped him capture the lead and win his seventh title after draws in the final two round...
GMs Vladislav Artemiev, Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Nihal Sarin, Arjun Erigaisi, and Alexander Riazantsev scored nine points apiece to share the lead at the end of day one of the 2023 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship. The sixt...
GM Alireza Firouzja had overtaken GM Wesley So on the live rating list after scoring 5/5 in a series of three matches against veterans in his home chess club of Chartres. Alas for the 20-year-old, he had one more game to play, and a draw from a lo...
It's a minor surprise that it doesn't happen more often, but GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Hikaru Nakamura were the winners of Titled Tuesday on December 19. Carlsen scored 10/11 in the early event, beating Nakamura by half a point, and in th...
British chess prodigy WCM Bodhana Sivanandan continues her remarkable chess journey with a sensational result in the European Blitz Championship where she won the prize for the best woman player. In late October, the eight-year-old prodigy made ...
